philip964 wrote:I noticed tonight in a TV preview for "Rookie Blue" that the young female rookie is presented with a BG pointing a weapon at her. She has her weapon pointed at the BG and she yells "drop the gun" but does not fire.
I think that is the general view of television police is that they will give you the opportunity to put down your weapon, and only if you fail to do that after several requests then maybe they will shoot, but probably you have to shoot first and naturally miss before they will actually ever fire.
I watched the episode, the rookie forgot to load her weapon at the station and when she drew on the BG, realized there was no magazine in the pistol and no spare mags on her belt
Her only recourse at that point was to talk him into dropping the gun.